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Jonathan Ballard Blitstein

JONATHAN BALLARD BLITSTEIN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Jonathan Blitstein is an award-winning playwright/indie filmmaker and graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Recent projects include the play Keep Your Baggage With You at All Times (New York Innovative Theater Award-Winner 2011, "Outstanding Full-Length Play Script") and Squealer" starring Sarah Lemp and Nick Lawson (Amoralists/Adam Rapp's Hallway Trilogy). His debut feature film Let Them Chirp Awhile, starring Justin Rice (Mutual Appreciation) and Brendan Sexton III (AMC's The Killing) world-premiered on opening night at the Woodstock Film Festival in 2007, and played in theaters around the country and on TV, worldwide. Blitstein is a member of the Rising Phoenix Repertory, The LoNyLA project, and his newest play will premiere as part of the CINO Nights Series in April 2012. He is the co-founder of Lesser America, an acclaimed new theater company. Back in his Chicago days, Jonathan studied acting at the Piven Theater Workshop and The Second City. He is currently pursuing his MA in Theater History and Criticism at Brooklyn College.

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below is a list of Jonathan Ballard Blitstein's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Keep Your Baggage With You (At All Times)         Squealer

Keep Your Baggage With You (At All Times)

Synopsis:
This show is part of the Dream Up Festival. This is the official blurb: Keep Your Baggage is a provocative new play that asks the question "In New York, do we change and grow through our relationships or do we merely become magnified versions of ourselves, whether despicable or wonderful?" Told in seven scenes taking place over seven years each one advancing forward in time beyond the next, we are shown the devolution of both a platonic friendship between two male best friends and several of their intimate relationships. Loaded with explosive dialogue, the show fearlessly depicts the new 21st century sex-laws and how relationships can be compromised by the digital age in which we ask too many questions, but don't have enough answers.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    08 Aug 2010

Organisations:
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1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/keep-your-baggage-with-you-at-all-times   -

Music:
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Genre:
100 min Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Squealer

Synopsis:
Set in fictional Wauketawnee Lake, Illinois against the backdrop of recession in the heartland, Squealer follows an ambitious pork farmer with a roving eye who moves in with a widowed single mother and her teenaged daughter. When he can't get what he wants, things get bloody. a full-on taste of America's poverty-soaked obsession with consumerism and our unquenchable thirst for more, whether it's meat, or love, or both.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First avenue, New York, NY 10009    05 May 2011

Organisations:
Lesser America

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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